“My fight game plan is something everybody now already knows. I will try to keep the fight standing against him again. That's what I like to do,” said Dos Santos.

The last time Dos Santos and Velasquez met their clash ended in a mere 1:04 of round one on November 2011. The Mexican-American heavyweight out of Arizona was undefeated and had destroyed the previous champion Brock Lesnar in devastating fashion. But that night in Anaheim it was Brazil’s Dos Santos who crushed Velasquez and wrested the UFC heavyweight title before a stunned crowd.

More than a year has passed and both heavyweights expect a different experience inside the Octagon.

“I know it’s going to be a different fight,” says Dos Santos, who likes to joke around outside of the Octagon but is deadly serious inside. “For sure I think Cain Velasquez is going to come different for this fight, hungrier than the first fight for sure.”

In their first encounter both Velasquez and Dos Santos entered that fight with serious knee injuries but decided to proceed despite the handicaps. Velasquez ignited the fight with several kicks to the leg that prompted Dos Santos to believe that a spy had discovered his injury. But after an exchange of punches it was Velasquez who was stunned and the Brazilian pounced on him to end the fight.

Dos Santos expects a different fight this weekend.

“He's (Velasquez) going to try to take me down using his wrestling that he used very well,” says Dos Santos.

Velasquez knows exactly what is needed and why he lost the first time.

“Junior is very quick. He has a lot of power in his hands. He timed it perfectly and it landed,” said Velasquez of the knockout blow. “The only reason I got into this sport was to be the champion. And now that I'm not champion, it's the only thing that's on my mind right now, to go in there to win this fight.”

Heavyweights can be explosive or they can be ponderous and deliberate.

“Velasquez is going to try to improve his game to make his game. He's going to try to take me down using his wrestling,” Dos Santos predicts. “If he accepts to fight standing up, I’ll knock him out again.”

And if Dos Santos emerges victorious once again, he would love to fight one of the Klitschkos.

“I consider myself the best heavyweight in the world,” says Dos Santos, 28, who lives in Bahia, Brazil. “I can beat that Wladimir Klitschko. I can beat him.”

It’s really up to UFC president Dana White, but if Dos Santos has his way he’d be looking across the corner with either Klitschko.

Jds is a fantastic boxer. Great speed, power and hand eye coordination. He fights like a boxer.

But White would never let him fight in a boxing match.

White would not let Anderson silva box a 41 year old RJJ.

White knows better.

He knows boxing better than mma.

deepwater says:

must be a slow time of year on this website.this is a joke at best and a bad attempt of publicity for the crappy ufc at worst. jab jab jab hold-jab jab jab rt hand klitcho would get a first round ko finally if he fought these bums in a boxing match. ufc is losing its appeal. i say let klitcho have a spectacular knockout for once. a 3 punch combo will shut up all ufc pink hair dudes once and for all. just watched a street fight break out in the city the other night. a guy rips off his button down to show an affliction tank top and many tats and says he is an mma fighter and gets in his stance. the other guy says get the f away from me. mma guy charges other guy. other guy smashes him in the face with a corona bottle.while bloody mma guy goes to knees he gets a solid rt hand and drops face first. while down a nice boot to the head sprawls him out. other guy says I told him to leave me alone and walks away. dear mma/ufc stop giving these meatheads the idea they can win street fights with justisu and wrestling. in the street people wont tap and will stab you. the ufc gives hope to the hopeless. my friend is a bouncer and he says every weekend there are all out brawls always attributed to a drunk who is taking mma classes and thinks he is more then he is.